Constantly updated quality content is the mainstay of any website or blog. I have already described how to set up a WordPress.org blog and what to write about when you have one. Here,s the "how to" for those new-ish to WordPress... There are three things to remember when you are writing: Make … [Read more...]
Photoshop a flag inside a country
This is was a Photoshop image I did to illustrate how Chinese national oil companies were active in Africa. I'd tried recently many vector flags and country outlines solutions to similar illustrative quandaries and I thought this time it was nice to do it all in Photoshop. I created the mask … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #6: How to get links to your website
There are two sides of a coin when considering how to market your site on the internet. Firstly, concentrate on the site itself: write regularly updated quality content and optimize the site for search engines. Secondly, by concentrating off the site: getting quality sites to link to … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #5: How to optimize your WordPress site for search engines
This is the fifth in the series where I explain how an individual or small or medium sized organization can get themselves noticed in the big bad world. Other installments explained how to set up a web site from scratch, how to install WordPress and what to write on your site. Before we … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #4: What to write in your blog or website
So you've got your WordPress blog set up and you are just starting to write – what you do? Words are, in my opinion, the most important thing on a website. This is because the search engine robots that crawl the web every day can pretty much "read" what you've written, but they can't look at your … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #3: How to install a WordPress blog on your site
In the previous post in my How to market yourself series, I described how to set up a website on a host's server. Here I will tell you how to set up a WordPress blog on that server. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here. This article is about how to set up WordPress manually. If … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #2: How to set up a website
This is the second post in my How to market yourself series, a personal account of the best marketing techniques you can employ for yourself or your business. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here. There are three things you need to do when setting up your website. Decide on … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #1: Introduction
I have successfully been on the first page in Google for freelance graphic designer for a few months now and I'm quite pleased with this. Marketing yourself is one of the most important things any professional or company will do. For this reason I'm going to write a number of articles about … [Read more...]
American flag inside country map outline
A while ago I did an article explaining how to create a country,s flag inside its map outline and I used as an example the Australian map and flag. I've since had a lot of interest from Australians who wanted to use the image so I thought I'd do one for Americans as I get a lot of visitors from the … [Read more...]
How to put one image inside another image
There is an ad campaign in London at the moment for Portuguese tourism. You can see 48-,24- and 16-sheet adverts in the tube with giant portraits of famous Portuguese celebrities (Cristiano Ronaldo, José Mourinho) with a landscape showing through the image. Something similar to this effect that can … [Read more...]
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